Thursday, November 17, 2011

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Update Saturday, November 19th: Liberal elite hypocrisy alert as Anne Hathaway (net worth approximately $58 million), squarely at the top of the 1%, protests for #OWS.

Where are all of the supporters of #OWS now that the movement has shown its spots as groups of marauding nomads bent on civil disobedience, disruption of daily life and yes, perpetrators of lots and lots of crime!

The liberal politicians and Hollywood types fell over each other two months ago running for the microphones to heap praise on the #OWS movement although little was really known about them.

It was a scene straight out of the "Arab Spring" where there was rush by some, most notably President Obama, to back and support groups that we knew nothing about.

Now, in countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Libya, the very groups it was feared would move into power are in fact doing so.

Similarly, the #OWS movement across the country has shown itself to be a loosely banded group of people, likely being manipulated from above, who are hellbent on pushing an agenda that is very difficult to identify beyond civil disobedience and the disruption of everyday life for the very 99% they claim to represent.

The Democratic co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Representatives Raúl Grijalva and Keith Ellison, announced their solidarity with the movement on October 4.

Former Democratic U.S. Senator Russ Feingold endorsed the movement on October 5 stating, "This is like the Tea Party—only it's real... By the time this is over, it will make the Tea Party look like ... a tea party."

Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State Colin Powell declared that the demonstrations of the OWS movement were "as American as apple pie,"

On September 19, Roseanne Barr, the first celebrity to endorse the protest, spoke to protesters calling for a combination of capitalism and socialism and a system not based on "bloated talk radio hosts and that goddamn Ayn Rand book."

Filmmaker Michael Moore spoke in support against Wall Street, saying, "They have tried to take our democracy and turn it into a kleptocracy." (Source)